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<title>Update Information: June 30, 2009</title>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Posting by Ron, Wednesday, July 01, 2009, 00:20:</em></p><p><p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list]Engine Updates[/url]</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: Chesley the Chess Engine 195</span></strong><br />
no build for this version yet<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#666;">Info Only: Crafty</span></strong><br />
added Win32s and Win64s builds<br />
&quot;The Win32s and Win64s builds are the same as the previous builds except they are compiled with the /DSKILL option in the makefile.&quot;<br />
<a href="http://www.webkikr.com/">http://www.webkikr.com/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: Glass 1.3</span></strong><br />
- Nalimov Endgame Tablebase Support (3-6 men)<br />
- Nullmove tuning<br />
- No separate settings anymore for the different types of transposition tables<br />
- Improved Time management (time control of 10s / game tested successfully)<br />
- &quot;analyze&quot; command added to analyze epd files<br />
- pawn storm code and minor eval tweaks<br />
- opening book tweaks<br />
<a href="http://www.koziol.home.pl/marittima/glass/index.htm">http://www.koziol.home.pl/marittima/glass/index.htm</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: Gray Matter 1538</span></strong><br />
- faster, stronger. (x64)<br />
- Adding command line depth setting to performance tests<br />
x64 version only<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/chesley/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: RBrChess 2.15</span></strong><br />
version 2.14 was buggy and is removed<br />
Win32 version only<br />
<a href="http://home.hetnet.nl/~rogerbroertjes/">http://home.hetnet.nl/~rogerbroertjes/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#090;">Update: Tornado 3.07</span></strong><br />
- razoring and futility margins changed<br />
- changes in quiesce search<br />
- in nullmove pruning was a bug with mate threat that not extended later in search extensions, this fixed<br />
- futility pruning in smp search added too<br />
<a href="http://www.tornadochess.de/">http://www.tornadochess.de/</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#666;">Info Only: Down chess websites</span></strong>  <img src="images/smilies/frown.png" alt=":-(" /><br />
Ayito site down for 2 days<br />
Nesik site down for 5 days<br />
Pierre site down for 7 days</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_news_list]Chess News[/url]</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#666;">Info Only: WinBoard/XBoard</span></strong><br />
&quot;XBoard and WinBoard information has moved&quot;<br />
Tim Mann has moved the 'official' WinBoard/XBoard download and support pages to a new website<br />
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/">http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/]Wiki Changes[/url]</strong></span><br />
Thanks to Norbert Raimund Leisner who makes many of these wiki changes! <img src="images/smilies/smile.png" alt=":-)" /></p>
<p><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:play_chess_online_list]Play Chess Online List[/url]</strong><br />
added Mobi, Magnus Super Online Chess, MobileThinkerBoard, Odesys, PhoneChess, PocketGrandmaster, Yafi, and YinYang Chess<br />
improved Zillions of Games comment</p>
<p><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list]GUI Protocol List[/url]</strong><br />
improved comments for EBoard, WinBoard, and Winboard_X</p>
<p><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:mobile_chess_list]Mobile Chess List[/url]</strong><br />
removed obsolete PhoneChess</p>
<p><strong>[url=http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:variants_engine_list]Variants Engine List[/url]</strong><br />
added HoiChess (XiangQi)</p>
<p><strong>Invisible Technical Improvements </strong><br />
improved the website change detection software to more accurately identify real changes</p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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